Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 12:11 +0100, Ghee Teo wrote:
> Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 03:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> >   
> >> We have just released a new stable version of tracker (0.5.0) which can 
> >> be found here:
> >>
> >> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.0.tar.bz2
> >>
> >> I would like to propose this for inclusion into Gnome 2.18 as its now 
> >> been well tested and should be stable enough.
> >>     
> >
> > Aside from technical objections, are there any distributions that ship
> > this by default?  Do any of these enable it by default?
> >
> > New applications don't get into GNOME as they may be cool and
> > interesting, they get into GNOME as they are used in the real world.  As
> > an example, Sound Juicer, IIRC, was the default CD ripper in released
> > versions of Red Hat and Mandrake before it was proposed and accepted
> > into GNOME.
> >   
>    I hope this is not the only acceptance criteria. How many distros 
> ship epiphany still?
>    However, if a distro has already shipped it and its underlining 
> dependencies, it does
> make it easier for to be accepted :).
> 
I guess more than 'shipped by a distro' is 'used by lots of people',
that is, so that we make sure it doesn't introduce lots of problems. So,
the question is where/who/how is using tracker?
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>